Giuseppe
Emeritus
[Source: Eurosurveillance, full text: (LINK). Abstract, edited.]
J Clerinx (
)<SUP>1</SUP>, E Vlieghe<SUP>1</SUP><SUP>,2</SUP>, V Asselman<SUP>1</SUP><SUP>,2</SUP>, S Van de Casteele<SUP>3</SUP>, M B Maes<SUP>4</SUP>, V Lejon<SUP>1</SUP>
Citation style for this article: Clerinx J, Vlieghe E, Asselman V, Van de Casteele S, Maes MB, Lejon V. Human African trypanosomiasis in a Belgian traveller returning from the Masai Mara area, Kenya, February 2012. Euro Surveill. 2012;17(10)
ii=20111. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=20111
Date of submission: 05 March 2012 <HR>A Belgian traveller was diagnosed with human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) due to Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense nine days after visiting the Masai Mara area in Kenya. He presented with an inoculation chancre and was treated with suramin within four days of fever onset. Two weeks earlier, HAT was also reported in a German traveller who had visited the Masai Mara area. Because no cases have occurred in the area for over 12 years, this may indicate a focal cluster of HAT.
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Eurosurveillance, Volume 17, Issue 10, 08 March 2012
Rapid communications
Human African trypanosomiasis in a Belgian traveller returning from the Masai Mara area, Kenya, February 2012
Rapid communications
Human African trypanosomiasis in a Belgian traveller returning from the Masai Mara area, Kenya, February 2012
J Clerinx (
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
- Department of Tropical Diseases, University Hospital Antwerp, Belgium
- Department of Nephrology, Hospital St. Jan Brugge, Belgium
- Haematology laboratory, University Hospital Antwerp, Belgium
Citation style for this article: Clerinx J, Vlieghe E, Asselman V, Van de Casteele S, Maes MB, Lejon V. Human African trypanosomiasis in a Belgian traveller returning from the Masai Mara area, Kenya, February 2012. Euro Surveill. 2012;17(10)
ii=20111. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=20111 Date of submission: 05 March 2012 <HR>A Belgian traveller was diagnosed with human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) due to Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense nine days after visiting the Masai Mara area in Kenya. He presented with an inoculation chancre and was treated with suramin within four days of fever onset. Two weeks earlier, HAT was also reported in a German traveller who had visited the Masai Mara area. Because no cases have occurred in the area for over 12 years, this may indicate a focal cluster of HAT.